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When Dakota Ridge High School graduate Abe Ng approached a teacher about establishing a competitive robotics team, he probably didn’t expect the program to be flourishing six years later.

Ng, now a graduate student at the Colorado School of Mines, also had no idea he would find himself back in the same laboratory using his electrical engineering expertise to guide students through the programming of a complex array of light sensors on an autonomous robot.

A water line rupture caused by subzero temperatures closed Jeffco’s administrative offices Feb. 4 at the county courts and administration building, though all offices were expected to reopen on Monday.

A crack in a 2-inch-diameter pipe above the county attorney’s office on the building’s fifth floor was noticed about 6 p.m. Feb. 3, after a steady stream of water had begun to flood offices on all floors of the administrative wing.

WESTMINSTER — When Standley Lake met Dakota Ridge on Dec. 17 at Dakota Ridge High School, the Lady Eagles dominated from the opening tip-off. The rematch on Jan. 28 at Standley lake High School was virtually the polar opposite.

The Lady Gators(12-4 overall, 8-2 5A Jeffco) jumped out to an early 8-0 lead and were never challenged in a 54-37 victory.

The area affected by the mountain pine beetle grew by 400,000 acres in 2010, a decrease of 24 percent compared to the 524,000 acres infested in 2009, according to the latest aerial survey by the U.S. Forest Service and the Colorado State Forest Service. The results were released Jan. 21.

Since the first signs of the outbreak appeared in 1996, the pine beetle has destroyed a total of 4 million acres of forest in Colorado and southern Wyoming. The lodgepole forests in counties such as Summit and Grand have been hit the worst.